Heavy Snow, Bennington
- When
- January 1, 7:00 PM EST to January 3, 10:30 PM EST
- Where
- Bennington forecast zone
- Reported by
- Broadcast Media
- Coordinates
- 43.036, -73.093 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Vermont, January 1 to 3, 2010
Initially, a strong upper level disturbance and surface cold front approached the region Friday, January 1st, resulting in light snowfall across the area. Then, a powerful storm formed in the Gulf of Maine on Saturday, January 2nd and moved gradually westward toward the northern New England coast Saturday night into Sunday, January 3rd, bringing a widespread snowfall to southern Vermont along…
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS ALY wrote it up.
Initially, a strong upper level disturbance and surface cold front approached the region Friday, January 1st, resulting in light snowfall across the area. Then, a powerful storm formed in the Gulf of Maine on Saturday, January 2nd and moved gradually westward toward the northern New England coast Saturday night into Sunday, January 3rd, bringing a widespread snowfall to southern Vermont along with blustery conditions, resulting in blowing and drifting of the snow.
Snowfall totals across Bennington and western Windham counties ranged from about 10 inches, up to just over two feet.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 1, 6:42 PM EST, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 1, 6:42 PM EST, 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 1, 4:49 PM EST, 2 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 449 PM EST FRI JAN 1 2010 NYZ032-033-VTZ013>015-021200- NORTHERN HERKIMER-HAMILTON-BENNINGTON-WESTERN WINDHAM- EASTERN WINDHAM- 449 PM EST FRI JAN 1 2010 ...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE SUNDAY NIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN ADIRONDACKS OF EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...AND FOR SOUTHERN VERMONT. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER STORM WATCH. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE AROUND THE WESTERN PERIPHERY OF AN INTENSE OFFSHORE STORM SYSTEM LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. SOME OF THE WIND GUSTS COULD BE SLIGHTLY GREATER THAN 45 MPH. SHOULD CONFIDENCE LEVELS INCREASE THAT SUCH STRONG WINDS WILL OCCUR...THEN WIND ADVISORIES MAY BE ISSUED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. CTZ001-013-NYZ039>041-047>053-058>061-063>066-083-021200- NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN FULTON-MONTGOMERY- NORTHERN SARATOGA-SCHOHARIE-WESTERN SCHENECTADY-EASTERN SCHENECTADY- SOUTHERN SARATOGA-WESTERN ALBANY-EASTERN ALBANY-WESTERN RENSSELAER- WESTERN GREENE-EASTERN GREENE-WESTERN COLUMBIA-EASTERN COLUMBIA- WESTERN ULSTER-EASTERN ULSTER-WESTERN DUTCHESS-EASTERN DUTCHESS- SOUTHEAST WARREN- 449 PM EST FRI JAN 1 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT...AND THE MID HUDSON VALLEY...GREATER CAPITAL REGION...THE LAKE GEORGE SARATOGA REGION...MOHAWK VALLEY...EASTERN CATSKILLS...AND CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN TACONICS OF EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE AROUND THE WESTERN PERIPHERY OF AN INTENSE OFFSHORE STORM SYSTEM LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. SOME OF THE WIND GUSTS COULD BE SLIGHTLY GREATER THAN 45 MPH. SHOULD CONFIDENCE LEVELS INCREASE THAT SUCH STRONG WINDS WILL OCCUR...THEN WIND ADVISORIES MAY BE ISSUED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. MAZ001-025-NYZ038-042-043-054-082-084-021200- NORTHERN BERKSHIRE-SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE-SOUTHERN HERKIMER- NORTHERN WARREN-NORTHERN WASHINGTON-EASTERN RENSSELAER- NORTHERN FULTON-SOUTHERN WASHINGTON- 449 PM EST FRI JAN 1 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...AND THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY AND NORTHERN TACONICS OF EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. A MODERATE SNOWFALL IS POSSIBLE LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY ASSOCIATED WITH A POWERFUL NOREASTER EAST OF THE GULF OF MAINE. IF CONFIDENCE INCREASES...THEN A WINTER STORM WATCH OR A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MAY BE NECESSARY. IN ADDITION...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE AROUND THE WESTERN PERIPHERY OF THIS STORM SYSTEM LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. SOME OF THE WIND GUSTS COULD BE SLIGHTLY GREATER THAN 45 MPH. SHOULD CONFIDENCE LEVELS INCREASE THAT SUCH STRONG WINDS WILL OCCUR...THEN WIND ADVISORIES MAY BE ISSUED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Western Windham
- When
- January 1, 7:00 PM EST to January 3, 10:30 PM EST
- Where
- Western Windham forecast zone
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 42.991, -72.714 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Cold in Mississippi, January 1 to 14, 2010
- Cold in Illinois, January 1 to 5, 2010
- Lake-Effect Snow in Ohio, January 1 to 5, 2010
- Cold in Louisiana, January 1 to 14, 2010
- Lake-Effect Snow in Pennsylvania, January 1 to 5, 2010
- Cold in Arkansas, January 1 to 14, 2010
- Lake-Effect Snow in New York, January 1 to 4, 2010
- Flooding in Arkansas, January 1 to 31, 2010
- Cold in Missouri, January 1 to 12, 2010
- Drought in Colorado, January 1 to 31, 2010
- Cold in Illinois, January 1 to 12, 2010
- Cold in Wisconsin, January 1 to 6, 2010
More
Every storm in Vermont in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Vermont, January 2010
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 205170, 205171.